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Ah, excellent. As much as I like my Xoom, the Android tablet market would benefit tremendously from lighter, cheaper tablets. It wouldn't hurt to have some 7" d
by ekidd 16y ago
Ah, excellent. As much as I like my Xoom, the Android tablet market would benefit tremendously from lighter, cheaper tablets. It wouldn't hurt to have some 7" devices, either, running Honeycomb and a real GPU.
Apple has some terrific advantages in the tablet market: A unified vision, a larger marketplace of tablet apps, and good vertical integration. Android, on the other hand, benefits from the fact that multiple manufacturers can launch multiple devices per year. Look how quickly the Android market went from the G1 to the Nexus S.
I'm bullish about tablets in 2011 and 2012. Both Apple and Google are executing very credibly, and the Xoom is a vastly better first attempt than the Android 1.5 phones. So with any luck, we should see significant consumer adoption and growth in the tablet market over the next two years.
- alperakgun 16y agoandroid gives hardware vendors an open platform which enables a productive environment for rich diversification and mutation; look at this cambrian explosion of smartphones in 2011: sony experia play, LG optimus 3d, galaxy s, motorola atrix; i hope the same will happen with tablets; but expected mutations: - premium tablets like xoom, offering the newest hardware, advanced screen resolution, - cheap tablets replacing netbooks; - very cheap tablets for web apps only; - game tablets replacing consoles; enabling playstation, nintendo etc - laptop replacement tablets: a tablet with hdmi dual screens, usd keyboard; programming tools etc.
- spicyj 16y ago> Look how quickly the Android market went from the G1 to the Nexus S. In about the same time frame, Apple created the original iPhone and revised it into the iPhone 4. It's not clear to me how Android has a clear advantage here.